Two brothers from southwest Detroit struggle to improve their lives. Unable to afford college and faced with expulsion - and meanwhile supporting his mother - Jason turns to stripping which turns to prostitution, posing a huge dilemma since he has just begun the first true love relationship of his life. Bobby, fresh out of prison and owing convicts inside, turns right back to selling drugs but one misstep follows another and he's soon in over his head with the local mafia. His attempts to draw Jason back into a life of crime fail. Jealous of Jason's new relationship - and how their mother dotes on Jason while Bobby can never do right in her eyes - Bobbys own drug habit spirals him down into a darker and darker place, exasperated by the re-emerging memory of the horrible childhood secret he shares with Jason.
